cream pitcher - center Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College
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cream pitcher - center Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College
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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1948.49
People
William Cunningham, Scottish
Patrick Cunningham, British
Title
Creamer
Other Titles
Title: Cream pitcher
Classification
Vessels
Work Type
vessel
Date
1818-1819
Places
Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, Scotland, Edinburgh
Period
George III (1760-1820)
Culture
British, Scottish
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/311611

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Silver
Dimensions
10.48 x 15.88 x 10.8 cm (4 1/8 x 6 1/4 x 4 1/4 in.)
290 g
Inscriptions and Marks
  • hallmark: on shoulder, struck: thistle, castle, date letter
  • maker's mark: on shoulder, struck: W & / PC [William II & Patrick II Cunningham, Jackson, p. 550, line 1]
  • inscription: on side, engraved: ED

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Linda J. Corne, gift in memory of her mother; to Fogg Art Museum, 1948.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Miss J. Linda Corne in memory of her mother, Elizabeth Dumbreck of Edinburgh, Scotland
Accession Year
1948
Object Number
1948.49
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Part of a set comprising of a teapot, creamer, and sugar bowl; each with compressed circular chased with spiral fluting and on spreading bases, applied at hte shoulders with bands of embossed foliage, with leaf-capped scroll handles, chased front and back with a scroll cartouche.

Publication History

  • Christopher Hartop, British and Irish Silver in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums/Yale University Press (Cambridge, Mass. and New Haven, 2007), pp. 181-182, cat. no. 176, repr. p. 182.

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